Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Summary of a Symposium.

摘要

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow high-technology companies, develop the talent and resources necessary to create innovation clusters, and sustain manufacturing and high value employment. These state and regionally based initiatives have a broad range of goals and increasingly include significant resources that often focus on driving innovation and often in partnership with foundations and universities. These are being joined by recent initiatives to coordinate and concentrate investments from a variety of federal agencies that provide significant resources to develop regional centers of innovation, business incubators, and other strategies to encourage entrepreneurship and high-tech development.